Tag-hook



L. c. JEEP.

TAG HOOK APPLICATION Fl LED FEB. 16, I920.

Patented May3, 1921.

FIE-l, I

A TTORNEY.

UNITED STATES LOUIS C. JEEP, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

TAG-HOOK.

Application filed February 16, 1920.

T 0 all 1071-0771 it may concern Be it known that I, Louis C. JEEP, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Sioux City, in the countyof \Voodbury and State of lowa, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tag-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a swinging hook of simple and inexpensiveyet efficient construction and principle and particularly designed formounting on the edges of merchandise shelves and removably supportingtags on which are indicated the prices of goods upon the shelves.

The invention further contemplates a tag hook which may be mounted todepend from the edge of a merchandise shelf and so constructed thatwhile a price tag may be readily applied to or removed from the hook,accidental displacement of the tag from the hook is prevented and thehook will in no way obstruct the removal of merchandise from the shelfbelow.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consisting in theconstruction, combination and novel arrangement of parts, will be fullyunderstood from the following description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application and inwhich like characters of reference indicate correspond.- ing partsthroughout the several views, of which,-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device constructed in accordance withthe invention;

Fig. 2 is rear elevation thereof with a fragment of a applied thereto;and

F 3 is a side elevation thereof as applied to a shelf.

Referring, now, to the illustrations, 4: is a sheet metal plate havingin its rear side, a longitudinal depression, 5. The hook con sists of awire folded on itself at its approximate center. the folded end portionsthen being bent in the shape of a hook, 6, the end portions of the wireare then bent latterly in opposite directions as at 7 and freelyinclosed in the recess, 5, the lower edge of the plate, l, beingprovided with a notch, 8,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1921.

Serial No. 358,904.

which extends from the lower edge of the plate into the recess, 5, toreceive the shank, 9, of the hook.

The plate, 4, may be provided with openings, 10, to receive nails orscrews, 11, for attaching the plate to the face of the shelf, 12.

The hook and plate are so related and constructed and so mounted uponthe shelf that normally the hook oepends in the position shown in Fig. 3with the end portion of the hook in engagement with the lower side ofthe shelf, 12, in which position it will be observed, the tag is notlikely to be accidentally displaced nor the hook engaged by personspassing in front of the shelving and 7 articles being removed from thenext lower shelf (not shown) will not be caught upon the hook, but whenbrought into engagement with the hook, the latter will be swungoutwardly as indicated in dotted lines.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,

1 swingingehook, including a single length of wire folded upon itself,the folded one portion thereof being formed in a hook, and the free endportions thereof being bent longitudinally in opposite directions, and asupport therefor, including a sheet-metal plate adapted to be mounted onthe front of a shelf, the side of the plate adjacent the shelf having anintermediate horizontal concave recess, between which and the shelf thefree end portions of the hook are inclosed, the plate having a notch inits lower edge extending into the recess to permit the hook to oscillateand normally rest in the notch a nst the shelf, the plate and hook beingso disposed that the free end of the hook extends rearwardly andnormally engages the under side of the shelf a distance from the frontedge thereof. to prevent accidental displacement of articles from thehook and protrude from the front of the shelf a minimum distance.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2nd day of Sept,1919.

LOUIS C. J EEP

